Why should I switch from Restic to Borg?

• Zabbix

  69 3,811 10.0 PHP

  Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.

  

Restic has a very good command line tool: resticprofile which lets you write backup profiles in an easy config file, automates the scheduling of each task along with an automatic locking system (to ensure prune never happens during backups, etc), and integration with Zabbix for monitoring the status of the backups (i.e. being alerted when backups fail). Restoring files and searching for files is done via the CLI.

• BorgBackup

  333 10,559 9.4 Python

  Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  

Borg's cryptography has many flaws and they're working on a rewrite of it. Ticket and List of current flaws.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• resticprofile

  10 541 8.5 Go

  Configuration profiles manager and scheduler for restic backup

Restic has a very good command line tool: resticprofile which lets you write backup profiles in an easy config file, automates the scheduling of each task along with an automatic locking system (to ensure prune never happens during backups, etc), and integration with Zabbix for monitoring the status of the backups (i.e. being alerted when backups fail). Restoring files and searching for files is done via the CLI.

• kopia

  224 6,354 9.6 Go

  Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.

  

You could also look on https://github.com/kopia/kopia

• arq_restore

  124 647 0.0 C

  command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups

On Windows and Mac I can strongly recommend Arq Backup, which I selected after a ton of testing. It's very robust and has fantastic features for searching for files and finding which revisions are available. It's sadly not available for Linux.

• borgmatic

  61 1,650 9.4 Python

  Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

  

Searching for files by name across backup archives will be implemented in the next release of borgmatic! More in this ticket. It doesn't (yet) support date ranges though.

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